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December 18, 2006
NBC: A 1-year difference
It was about this time last year when a skit on Saturday Night Live called "Lazy Sunday" went crazily viral on YouTube. The popularity of the video helped put YouTube on the map, not to mention the career of performer Andy Samberg.
NBC had a fit. Its lawyers demanded the video skit and all other NBC content be taken off the site.
Fast forward a year. The network is posting the show's "digital shorts," code for viral video, directly to YouTube itself. The digital short from this weekend's show featuring Samberg and guest host Justin Timberlake was hilarious, and the YouTube data indicates the same: Over a half-million views, hundreds of comments and hundreds of favoriting. (RSS readers click here to watch the video.)
What's even funnier is that NBC posted the uncensored version. Keep your speakers low at work.
[Hat tip: Ike Pigott]
UPDATE (12/21/06): More on how the uncensored video made it to the web in the NY Times: Censored ‘SNL’ Sketch Jumps Bleepless Onto the Internet
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